Vinod Khosla was born on 28th January 1955 in Delhi, India. He is an Indian-born American Engineer and Businessman.

Career

He graduated from IIT Delhi with Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering degree. For further studies, he went to Stanford Graduate School and obtained his MBA degree from there.

After graduating from Stanford University he started electronic design company called Daisy System. Two years later in 1982, he became the co-founder of Sun Microsystems with his batch mates from Stanford. A couple of years later he became a venture capitalist. He was a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, after which he became a renowned venture capitalist.

In 2004, he founded his own venture capital firm Khosla ventures in California, U.S. His firm invested over $1 billion. In 2009 he raised funds for his IT startups. In 2010, Britain’s former Prime Minister joined Khosla Ventures in the Board of Directors to give calculated advise regarding investments in Information Technology.

Apart from a successful businessman, he is also a philanthropist. He along with his wife donated $500,000 to Wikimedia Foundation.